Barrel-lining



UNITED STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KEARNEY, OF KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

BARREL-LINING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 416,224, dated December 3, 1889. Application filed March 7,1889. Serial No. 302,824. (Specimens) To all whom, it may concern: The composition retains its liquid consist- Be it known that I, JOHN KEARNEY, a citience while in bulk when cold, so that it can zen of the United States, residing at Keene, in be applied while cold as well as when slightly 55 the county of Cheshire and State of New warm. I find this quality quite a convenience Hampshire, have invented certain new and for slushing barrels used for storing or transuseful Improvements in Compositions for porting kerosene-oil, for the reason that when Coating the Inside of Vessels Holding Oils, once prepared it is always ready for use.

850.; and I do declare the following to be a After coating the vessel the compound dries 60 full, clear, and exact description of the inas soon as ordinary paint and formsa smooth IO vention, such as will enable others skilled in coating entirely impervious to the action of the art to which it appertains to make and use kerosene-oil and all greasy substances. the same. The potash acts as a solvent to the glue and The object of my invention is to produce blood and aids in forming a perfect solution 65 a cheap and efficient composition for coating of the ingredients. The salt I find to act in the inside of all wooden or paper packages, a similar manner,while both act as a precans, or vessels used for holding or transservative to the composition when stored in porting oils, paints, varnishes, benzine, spirbarrels, as well as after it is applied as a linits of turpentine, and all substances of an ing to the vessel. The salt and potash also 70 oily or pitchy nature, so as to render them render the composition less liable to crack l proof against the penetration or action of when the vessel or package is exposed in dry said substances. places.

My composition consists of the following This composition can be produced much ingredients combined together in the procheaper than any other preparation used for 75 portions stated-via, blood, seventy-five per coating the inside of oil vessels or packages.

cent. dissolved glue, twenty-three per cent; The basis of the compound being animal common potash, one per cent; common salt, blood, it can be obtained at slaughter-houses one per cent. The formula for combining or ata small cost as compared with glue. preparing said ingredients for use is as fol- I do not claim my composition is entirely 8o lows, viz: I first melt or dissolve a desired impervious to the action of water; but it will 0 quantity of hard glue in the usual manner, resist the action of water much longer than by first adding the necessary amount of wapreparations having a larger proportion of ter, then boiling or steaming the same until glue. it is dissolved into a liquid mass. I then add Having fully described my invention, I 85 to the dissolved glue the proportionate quan claim 3 5 tity of potash and salt and stir well together The process of rendering wooden or paper while the glue is hot. The solution is then vessels or packages proof against the action allowed to cool partially, so as to leave it simor penetration of oils, paints, varnishes, benply lukewarm or at about 100 Fahrenheit. zine, spirits of turpentine, pitch, and kindred 90 I then add the proportionate quantity of substances, which consists in coating the in- 40 animal blood, as nearly fresh as can be obside thereof with a composition consisting of tained, and stir or agitate the mixture until it a solution of blood, dissolved glue, carbonate is thoroughly mixed. It then forms a comof potassium, and chloride of sodium when pound of a dark-red color of the thickness prepared in the manner and in the propor- 5 or consistency of ordinary mixed paint, and tions above set forth.

is then ready for use. It is applied to the In testimonywhereoflatiix my signaturcin inside of open packages by means of a brush presence of two witnesses. and to the interior of barrels or kegs by turlr ing'into the bung-hole a sufficient quantity JOHN KEARNEY. and slushing the inside by rolling the vessel until the interior is thoroughly coated with \Vitnesses:

the composition. The residue, if any, is then HIRAM BLAKE, turned out. I E. M. FLINT. 

